Hospice Chaplain Kerry Egan on Living Boldly (ep. 566)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.9 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan quickly realized she’d been granted an invaluable chance to witness firsthand what she calls the “spiritual work of dying”—the work of finding or making meaning of one’s life.
In her years spent working in hospice care, Kerry has listened to patients reflect on feelings of hope and regret, shame and pride, mystery and revelation and secrets held too long. Most of all, though, she listened as her patients talked about love—love for their children and partners and friends; love they didn’t know how to offer; love they gave unconditionally; love they, sometimes belatedly, learned to grant themselves.
My friends, this conversation is not about dying. It’s about how to live boldly, love fiercely and dream extraordinarily.
Join us as Kerry shares how to find courage in the face of fear, the strength to make amends, and how to be profoundly compassionate and incredibly empathetic.
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| 0:47.3 | Welcome to the live-inspired podcast with John O'Leary. John is the number one national best-selling author of the book On Fire. |
| 0:56.3 | He's a world-class inspirational speaker, and he's the host of the live-inspired podcast. |
| 1:01.3 | John interviews extraordinary individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from |
| 1:06.8 | accidental living and more fully live your life story. Here's your host, John O'Leary. |
| 1:13.6 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. There's an old saying |
| 1:20.7 | that there are two certainties in life. The first one, taxes. Anyone know what the second one is? |
| 1:29.0 | That's right, my friends. |
| 1:30.1 | We all have a destination eventually with death. |
| 1:34.6 | So learning from that experience not only teaches us what is to come, but maybe even more |
| 1:39.9 | importantly, teaches us how to live prepared for it each day. |
| 1:43.6 | Not afraid of it, but ready for it. |
| 1:46.5 | As a hospice chaplain, Carrie Egan, quickly realized that she was granted an invaluable |
| 1:51.3 | chance to witness firsthand what she called the spiritual work of dying, the work of finding |
| 1:57.4 | or making meaning of one's life, of learning near the end of your life, |
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